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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many moons ago, I was recruited to play baseball at a couple Ivy League schools.  I played in a summer league in between my junior and senior year and met a couple coaches with connections to the Ivy League.  I ended up passing because the competition level was not up to snuff.  I wanted to challenge myself at the highest levels of D1. I found out that I was never going to be the best player on the team.  No regrets.

I have no clue how to get recruited today.   However, the first requirement is to have talent in whatever sport you are playing.

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This, the post about character being a differentiator is complete bs.  For the non obscure sports, you need to be high up in the national rankings for the sport. [/quote]

Okay. I'm the one who wrote that post. Someone said it's a bit rose-colored, and that is true. I didn't say it'll always work, I said this is the process. This is also where I believe there is a difference between Ivys and non-Ivy D1s. In the end, the pool of kids who can and WANT to play at Ivys is fairly small, but it's homogenous - so differentiators are needed. Often, the highest ranked kids typically do not play at Ivys. They're at the powerhouse sports schools on scholarship. My kid could not do their sport at, say Michigan. They can at an Ivy, because the Ivys aren't as good as Michigan. And there are kids choosing Michigan - or Florida, or Duke or Stanford, say - because they can give them money. Ivys aren't the right fit for all top student athletes.[/quote]

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